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Is there a way to view vote history, or are people actually watching the number of votes their comments get?

blasdel 17y ago
The only such view is linked as "threads" in the header and as "comments" in profiles. Individual votes on items are always hidden, especially since they aren't summed consistently (hellbanning, disenfranchisement) and the total displayed is not the number used for ranking (time-decay, demerit heuristics). There's the "saved: many" link in your profile that lets you see what stories you've personally voted up, but it's been timing out for a while.
ihodes 17y ago
I started a new account just the other day (wanted to use my actual name, and participate more) and as a result of that have little karma (not that it matters much), so I noticed when it took a downtick. Seeing as all the stories I'd commented on were still on the front page, I found the offending comment and was surprised there was no reasoning behind it. I like a good argument! EDIT: ach! It should be gauche*!
buro9 17y ago
The down vote isn't visible now, if that's what you're wondering. I came into the thread just after it had started and the only comment was ihodes. I thought it was interesting in that after reading the article I shared some of the same thoughts but at this point that single comment was down voted and with zero as the score. I up voted it back to one and ihodes had already replied asking why it was down voted. So there's no visible history and he's not seeing down votes, just the final score. It's just that the first vote was a down and he responded to that. He has a fair question though on down vote policy. It's very hard to see why it should've been down voted. My policy is to up vote everything worthy of up voting but to only ever down vote the really irrelevant, off topic and rude posts. Others do seem to down vote really random things. Maybe people should be asked for a reason when they down vote so that they stop and think about it for a moment.

The only such view is linked as "threads" in the header and as "comments" in profiles. Individual votes on items are always hidden, especially since they aren't summed consistently (hellbanning, disenfranchisement) and the total displayed is not the number used for ranking (time-decay, demerit heuristics). There's the "saved: many" link in your profile that lets you see what stories you've personally voted up, but it's been timing out for a while.

ihodes 17y ago

I started a new account just the other day (wanted to use my actual name, and participate more) and as a result of that have little karma (not that it matters much), so I noticed when it took a downtick. Seeing as all the stories I'd commented on were still on the front page, I found the offending comment and was surprised there was no reasoning behind it. I like a good argument! EDIT: ach! It should be gauche*!

buro9 17y ago

The down vote isn't visible now, if that's what you're wondering. I came into the thread just after it had started and the only comment was ihodes. I thought it was interesting in that after reading the article I shared some of the same thoughts but at this point that single comment was down voted and with zero as the score. I up voted it back to one and ihodes had already replied asking why it was down voted. So there's no visible history and he's not seeing down votes, just the final score. It's just that the first vote was a down and he responded to that. He has a fair question though on down vote policy. It's very hard to see why it should've been down voted. My policy is to up vote everything worthy of up voting but to only ever down vote the really irrelevant, off topic and rude posts. Others do seem to down vote really random things. Maybe people should be asked for a reason when they down vote so that they stop and think about it for a moment.